Lets face it, American car companies lost their cool like our dad’s lost their hair. They’ve been trying to pay their way into the cool guy crowd forever and you know what, it won’t ever work. Nice try Ford… maybe next time…

FYI: Not hatting on the JabbaWockeeZ, it’s cool they getting paid. I would do the exact same thing if I were them.

Blake hyping up NFL prospect Jordan Cameron for the NFL draft and yeah, this new old shit gets filed under wack. Blake doesn’t have the personality to pull of a Mars character.

Blake playing like he’s Mars, this should be interesting to see how it comes out. Spike Lee definitely had one of the greatest ad campaigns in shoe history, the new shit better live up to the old shit.

Stolen from: Kicksonfire.com

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The often thrown around quote from Pablo Picasso, “Good artists copy. Great artists steal.” embodies what “streetwear” is (and really lets face it, this can be said for everything). No idea is original, no concept is one of a kind and no you weren’t the first person to wear loose/tight/skinny/baggy/flared/bedazzled [insert article of clothing here].

In the first installment of New Old Shit we’ll take a look a classic logo in streetwear (which actually started with skatewear). Take a look at the  Esquire magazine cover below featuring Howard Stern:

Using a the classic Futura font it’s very clean and to the point, inspired perhaps from the censor bars used to block off the good bits. This cover came out in 1992, far before Stern had his multi-billion dollar satellite radio deal and still more of a NY presence. Take a walk with me to 1994 with the start of Supreme, a skate shop in NY that has grown to become something of staple in hip-hop and streetwear culture.

To date this is one of my favorite shirts they’ve come out with:

Ok so yeah they took a red box and used the same font, chances are Esquire probably wasn’t the first to do this either. Supreme was able to grow around this logo and make it it’s own and recently getting Lady Gaga to do their look book. That in itself is fucking amazing, this is a global music superstar after all.

This is my example of being a great artist, they stole someone’s original design and turned it into something that represents themselves in a much bigger way. Subsequently there’s been a few biters, some blatant some not so blatant. The worst seems to be these guys: